Bengal Cats and Kittens - Colours and Growth Stages

The traditional colour of the bengal cat is that of a leopard. Their coat consists of black or brown spots on various shades of brown/red, orange and gold coat colour.

Blue eyed snow bengals are born white and at the age of a week to ten days they start to show strips of grey or brown on their tails and legs and spots start to appear on the body. It can take up to a year for all the markings to come in and it is fascinating to watch them slowly change.

AOC (any other colour)eyed snow bengals are born with their markings already present. They have a sepia/champagne honey colour coat, with brown spots. These kittens will have green or aqua blue eye colour.

The brown marbled bengal has swirls of brown, orange, black and cream and spot markings are present on the belly of marbled cats. Snow marbled bengals are like the brown marbled but have swirls of ivory, brown and cream

Black bengals are very rare and show black spotting under a black shiny coat. When they turn you can see the spots through the coat like you can in true wild black panthers. Black bengals have green or yellow eye colouring.

Glitter is present on the coats of most bengals. The tips of the hair sparkle on individual hair shafts which gives a stunning overall effect and looks like the coat has been dusted with gold or silver.

Bengal kittens go through the stage called fuzzies at around 4 weeks of age

This stage can last for several weeks and is part of their natural camouflage, which in the wild would have helped them being seen by predators.

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